Catching up...

EEP... I needed to catch up on my homework from the Summer Card Camp 2.  So I'm almost caught up with making the cards, now I just have to post them :D

So here's day two's card.  We covered stamping techniques.  Using a stamp (or back of a stamp in my case) kind of like a paintbrush.  The banner is a watercolor paper that has Distress Inks "dragged" with a stamp.  I think it needs another flower to make the "triangle", but I couldn't figure out where to put it.

Day three was Inspiration from Guest Artists... instead of finding some paper to match the colors I needed, I just inked my own.

Day four was a 10 Minute Card challenge.  Most days, it takes me 10 minutes to clean off my workspace to even start on a card.  So I cleaned off my space, got out my supplies and did a "colored" die cut to inlay into the card.  Only my ink wasn't dry enough and so the color seeped out a bit onto the card front.  Definitely a nifty idea though.  I'll just have to work on it.  I didn't make it in 10 minutes, but it was more like 12.

So then I decided to try another 10 minute challenge.  Except I'd never used this die before.  Excuses, excuses, I know.  But seriously, I tried!!  Ended up being 13 minutes.  It's not my favorite.

So just when I'm getting used to these color combos, they give us 11,000 more to choose from.  Just kidding... it was more like 6.  But then I had to CHOOOOOOSE.  I'd rather have someone choose for me.  I'm not liking this too much, you can't see/read the embossing.  Oh well, I'll figure out another way to fix it.

On to week 2... new colors!  New sketches!  I was just getting to like the old ones ;)

So here's my circle card.  Not bad if I do say so myself... had fun with the embossing of the background and the coloring with Distress Inks.  Those are my new favorite toys!

Week two, day two was embossing.  They showed an awesome way to emboss over your stamped designs and add in a background.  I wanted to use these butterflies, but couldn't figure out a way to emboss over them so the whole butterfly would be embossed.  Then I thought back to one of the earlier lessons... flip over the stamp!!  These weren't clear stamps, but those cling type/rubber.  They wouldn't stick to my block when I put em on backwards, so I improvised and did it by hand.  Cut out the center piece and then used two small strips to fake mat it.  

So I'm all caught up to yesterday.  Today's lesson looks AWESOME!  But I had to make a cake for someone's birthday, so I haven't gotten to start playing with my paper yet.